Rode with a group of sport bikes today. This was one of the bikes. 195 hp

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Hubba-hubba-hubba  

http://www.ducatiusa.com/bikes/superbike/1199_panigale/index.do

This was another

http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/us/en/index.html?content=http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/us/en/bikes/sportbikes/s1000rr/s1000rr_spin.html&notrack=1

[FLAVALK]

Your friends have bucks...$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 

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Your friends have bucks...$$$$$$$$$$$$$  

A group of sensible mature sport bike riders.

My ST had its work cut out on the mountain twisties keeping up. I think a couple of them let me pass so the "older guy on the sport tourer" could feel good for a few minutes  

They lean so far and with such ease. You can really zoom, zoom.

The Ducati is just over half the weight of my ST with 70 more hp

BUT

I was the guy carrying the zip ties and knife when the Dukle had something that got loose  

Not much carrying room on a Ducati.

[J.Mencalice]

Motorcycles like those pictured should be encased in a gigantic jock-strap of a device to either secure the rider or prevent him/her from succumbing to the centrifugal forces exerted on their bodies and tossing them off into the barrow ditch.  Weeeeeee!!!!